Music

This program focuses on multichannel soundscape compositions. Composer Hildegard Westerkamp focuses on listening, environmental sound and acoustic ecology. At the beginning of her career she worked with R. Murray Schafer and the World Soundscape Project, is a founding and board member of the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology and was long-time editor of its journal Soundscape. Westerkamp’s Into the Labyrinth is a sonic journey into India’s sonic culture. Soundscape pioneer Barry Truax is a Professor Emeritus in the School of Communication (and formerly the School for the Contemporary Arts) at Simon Fraser University. His Earth and Steel takes the listener back to a time a century ago, when large steel ships were built in enclosed slips, and rich metallic resonances rang out, and is based on recordings from the World Soundscape Project Tape Collection recorded at a shipyard in Caraquet, New Brunswick in 1973. American composer Seth Cluett’s work has been presented internationally at venues such as The Whitney Museum, MoMA/PS1, and Ars Electronica. Doleros is an audio tour into the bell-like “Ringing Rocks” in rural Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
Program :
Barry Truax: Earth and Steel (2013)
Hildegard Westerkamp: Into the Labyrinth (2000)
Seth Cluett: Doleros (2008, revised 2018)